Tag: Security

Yesterday I heard Andy Smith, the Chief Security Architect for the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) speak at the BCS Central London branch meeting about the security behind the new National Identity Register which supports the National Identity Card.

Ask anyone who works in Information Security what the initials CIA mean and they will say “Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability”. These are the three measures used to assess the impact that an unwelcome event would have on an asset.

For me, one of the best parts of a holiday is the time sitting by the pool or at the beach (and less happily the airport) catching up on some serious reading. If there’s one profession that requires an insatiable capacity to read it is information security. I find

A couple of days ago I highlighted a post about security issues Facebook applications from the Light the Blue Touchpaper blog (the security research team at Cambridge). It came the week after I had spent two days giving repeated sessions of a “how to stay safe on the Internet course”

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I’m John Elliott, a data protection specialist and Pluralsight author. I help organisations balance regulatory requirements like GDPR, NISD, PSD2 and the PCI standards with IT, information security and business objectives. More …

WithoutFire …

… it’s a metaphor for our industry. The saying goes that there’s no smoke without fire. In information security and data protection we can often smell the smoke but we choose to optimistically believe that there’s isn’t a fire, or perhaps we’ll be lucky and not get burnt. This generally isn’t a great idea.

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